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I love the File Contents automation task. It is so incredibly useful.

found it! https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59917/how-do-you-get-system-diagnostic-files-from-macos sysdiagnose -- which was remarkably close to a hotkey I had setup in alfred.......

I used to remember this -- but i'm accidentally keep hitting a mac keycombo that generates some diagnostics log file (i don't remember where it gets saved) but the keyboard shortcut must be close to one of my alfred shortcuts. This is what happens.... after I hit the keycombo, my display flashes like it is taking a screenshot and then it creates some diagnostics file (i'm still looking for it on my system). Does anyone know what this keycombo and where the file is stored. I haven't done this is in a while but hoping someone may know what I'm managing to do by accident.

Not be a pusher -- but i think it would good for the community to have your brain in snippets. I made the transition from TextExpander when they went to subscription and I have never looked back. Come to this side of the pool, this water is warm!

@Crystal Taggart to follow up on what Vitor just posted. I use a stream deck with Alfred often. I call external triggers with this plugin for stream deck: https://apps.elgato.com/plugins/com.gabrielperales.osascript

@Stephen_C I agree with Vitor. I think the simpler the better!!! There is so much power in some of the built in objects that they are often overlooked until one reads the getting started guide, which not everyone is going to dive deeply into. Here are some suggestions from me … they are things have have helped me squeeze more out of Alfred. It is often the simple things I use the most. Just like Huey Lewis once sang, “The Power of File Filters” - a workflow that shows off how to narrow the focus of the search - i.e. choosing file types, scope, and search fields. - i have a couple of file filters that have kMDItemDisplayName with a pre-populated value. It took me years to discover this could be done! Write Text File/Append to Text file - something that shows the hidden strength of these objects - something with variables that maybe append to files - something populates a new files with a snippet inside of one of these objects - man, snippets and this object are like peanut butter and chocolate! - something that uses a variable for the file path of a new file Taking snippets to the streets (snippets aren't just for Michael McDonald) - all the places snippets can be used in a workflow - dynamic placeholders in snippets/workflows

Well, i say you keep going and maybe the powers that be might have a simple sub heading for it!

@Stephen_C -- this new series of yours is super fun and i'm sure helpful to so many users. Just spitballing here, but if you and the team plan on doing a bunch of these, maybe it should be broken out into its on forum heading for ease of discovery? I'm just thinking these posts will be buried in a week or two. Again, I think it only makes sense if you plan on doing a bunch.

I would see what vitor says, but if you are on Sonoma the default file filter settings vitor setup in the workflow should find .md files. It should look like the screenshot below. Know that if you change settings the will get changed again to the defaults when the workflow is updated.

@vitor I just came across this via Brett Terpstra’s blog and I wonder if this might be of interest to you and automation tasks: https://github.com/freedmand/textra. All of this is way over my head but it seems like they are leveraging apple’s API. I know you already extract text from a PDFs in automation tasks but I’m most curious about extracting text from audio files — especially if it is leveraging one of Apple’s APIs and works well.

It is there just under Screen Mode, so in photoshop's case it would be View Screen Mode Full Screen Mode or one of the other options in that submenu

Not sure about an applscript but you can also do the same thing Andy is suggesting but after your Launch Apps object you can connect the `Click Menubar Item in Front App` object and then add: View Enter Full Screen That should also work/

I think it might be the setting under Features->File Search->Advanced -- There is a Copy Path setting you can uncheck "Escape path on 'Copy Clipboard' action. I think that might do the trick.

This great. I've built something similar and also have been futzing with a tot replacement that essentially triggers a filefilter that has five different scratch pad documents where the the write to text action appends plain text. Been looking at your tot workflow as a bit of a model.

Thanks. Will keep you in the loop.

of course now I can't get it to crash!!!

hey @Andrew, Unfortunately, I have a new crash to report with the latest beta. These are the steps to that led up to the crash: - alfred prefences open - edited my email drafts worflow to increase font size in text view - triggered workflow with hotkey - typed some text into text view - hit ⌘ + 0 to increase window size - I either hit undo or escape (pretty sure it was escape) and Uncle Alfred crashed. Crash report heading to the info inbox.

Will do.... do you all ever sleep?

Of course -- Crash reports sent @Andrew

I've experienced a few unexpected crashes of alfred today -- they seem to occur when triggering alfred with my hotkey (in my case it is control+space) and the only other consistent thing I can remember is the the alfred preference window was open in on both occasions. I'm on a M1 Mac Studio and OS 13.6.4. I can also send crash reports as well.

Sound/hearing is my favorite of all the senses and the focus of most of my work. If you'd like to learn about Harry Nilsson, there was a solid documentary made about him in the early 2000s. He had a pretty remarkable career and life, which sadly was cut too short by some of his personal choices. It is amazing how fast you turn these updates around.

one other thing i just tried..... you could add an external trigger to Vitor's Window Switcher Worklfow and then call that workflow after copy to clipboard and pick the open app/window you want to paste into.

I still want to hear other thoughts but just realized that you don't need to have a text file -- you can set text view to "object input" and connect it to Copy to Clipboard. You can put the lime in the coconut without requiring Harry Nilsson!

I’m experimenting with making a little email scratch pad I can trigger with a hotkey and use the new text view object. I’ve been using Tot.app for this purpose, but wanted to try and replicate that workflow with the new text view object. My current Tot workflow does the following: - copies a specific tot.app dot (document) I write my email drafts in to the clipboard. - deletes the contents of the dot (document) so when i write a new draft it is blank. - opens the mail app so I can paste the text the body of my already open email message. I’ve rebuilt this with textview the following way: - I’ve created a txt file called email draft.txt - hotkey opens textview to that path, saves to file’s contents (set to overwrite) - copies file contents to clipboard and then open’s the mail app. This seems to work well, but I’m curious if there is a better/different way. I’m always curious to learn something new. Pasting the flow below.

@Vero -- it seems a bit silly asking this since it is just "status" but this is more for your process. I did receive 2 emails from Paddle: a receipt, download instructions but neither contains a new license. Should have I received one?